Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1887-03-31


been ably managed from the
first to the last, and are thor
oughly entrenched in the conf
1ence of the public. A bank
failure has never occurred in
Audrain county. Three hun
1red and fifty thousand dollars
Of capital invested and over half
a million of deposits guarded
by the staunch business men
in the banking bust
ness, have established a conf
dence in our financial institu-
tions of which we are justly
proud.
MEXICo'S MANUFACTURES.
Mexico has one large mer-
chant Touring mill with a daily
of 200 barrels of flour
and 800 bushels of meal, estab-
fishing a market for all the
wheat and corn produced. We
also have a custom corn meal
and feed mill, a good saw mill,
a pottery, a carding machine,an
iron foundry, two washing ma
chine manufactures, one buggy
mandatory and a wagon man
ufactory, a cigar factory, a bak-
baking powder mandatory, a
broom factory and three baker
les, and all are prospering.
Here is an opening for manufac-
lures. Get away from the.high
taxes of large cities, where
ground is high and other ex-
penses reduce profits to nothing.
We invite you here. Our bust
ness men will encourage you.
Fuel and water are plentiful,
ground is reasonably cheap.
Our shipping facilities are good.
We extend you a cordial invita-
ton and will give you a hearty
welcome if you locate here.
Here could be established a to-
bacco manufactory, and none is
better than the tobacco raised in
in Audrain and our southern
neighbor, Galloway county. An
agricultural implement manu-
factory would prosper here
buggies and farm wagons should
be made i'll larger numbers than
is now done. A barbed wire
manufactory would be support
ed by our prairie farmers.
Starch should be manufactured
here. Fruits and vegetables
enough are raised to supply a
canning establishment. A good
creamery and a cheese factory
could be protitably established.
A packing house would do a
thriving business. We will well
come the smoke of any one of
the thousand and one manufac.
tories, which could be named,
that would succeed here. We
want live men. We want men
who know no such word as fail,
and to such we say investigate
our advantages, and we do not
fear your decision.
NATURAL GAS AND PETROLEUM
are among the probable finds of
the near future. A company,
with ample means organized
within the past few weeks, have
contracted for the sinking of a
5000 foot well, and if surface in
dications can be relied upon,
petroleum will be struck in pay
ing quantities.
ADVANTAGES TO IMMIGRANTS.
To set forth the advantages
which is possessed by Audrain
county in one brief article, is
indeed an herculean task, and
the space allotted prohibits any
thing further than mere men,
ton of leading thoughts. Sit
uation is all that could be de-
sired. Three hours ride to St.
Louis, five hours ride to Kansas
City, twelve hours ride to Chi
cago, with the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers in picnicing dis
tance, are sufficient proofs that
our location need not fear COM
parison with any part of the civ
ilized world. Our business men
can leave home at breakfast
time, spend a day in st. Louis
and be with their families at
bed time. With a passenger
train every SO minutes, our ia
cilities for mingling with the
world are certainly uneXcelled.
Our city and county are well
supplied with both schools and
churches, our streams bridged.
and all these paid for, a county
not of debt, and nothing needed
for which a debt is likely to be
contracted. The man who buys
a farm in Audrain, comes in for
his share of all these public i'm
provements without money and
without price, and has an assur-
ance of low taxes for all time to
come, and yet, strange as it may
seem, our lands, unexcelled for
fertility, can be bought as cheap
as those of Kansas, five hun
dred miles further from the cen
tire of population. Our climate
is a happy mean between the
two eXtremes-toof far south for
a Dakota blizzard, too far north
for the parching simeon. Our
population is made up from ev-
cry state in the Union, and
country in Europe, and the
beneficial effects arising from
the mingling of ideas from all
sections, are everywhere dis
cernable in the liberal, tolerant
views of all for each other, the
highest respect for law and Or
der the most enthusiastic Sup-